wow. long time no blog.

In the past month and a half I've probably been complaining a lot about the weather, so it's in your, dear reader's, best interest that I've not written. :) Lots of rain, and cold--not compared to some of the places you live--but for Andalucía it broke a bunch of records. The bad kind. Too much precip., lots of floods, ruined crops, etc. But here now, I'm complaining again and we've just hopped into Spring, finally! So the last week has been rather delightful and my mood has been about 7x better. happier? better? yeah. The almond trees are bloomooming, along with some irises and even some tulips I saw the other day... also the weeds on the roof across the street from me--little yellow flowers that look really pollen-y. Allergy-sensative people, beware!)

Last Sunday I went to riding arena/school (horse) to watch my friend compete in her second-ever competition. It was fun, she did well (no faults or anything) and I was outside all day, yay! hay! (is for horses...)

A few weeks ago I went again to the island of Tenerife (one of the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco, part of Spain) for, yep, an ultimate tournament. I went with my "American team" --about half of which consisted of people from our team last year when we went to a beach tournament in Italy (and won). Did I mention our team name is "Manifest Destiny?" Haha.. Anyway, take 2 was not quite as successful in ranking, but we had a good time and dressed-up really obnoxiously as over-patriotic American cowboys... awesome. We also gave ourselves/each other permanent-marker tattoos.

And now I've just finished my "last" class for my masters program! Which means not-a-whole-lot, unfortunately... Still a test and several final projects/papers to do. And seminars and conferences that start Monday. And then the final final paper--research plan... yick. Anyway. Its Friday, and I'm off to the thrift-store and the rock wall, hurrah!
Happy Spanish Father's Day, Papá, love you! mwah.